590DM

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[edit] Document Modeling

Last Taught

Spring 2005

Instructor(s)

Allen Renear

Teaching Assistant(s)

Adam Mathes

Has Taken

Adam Mathes

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[edit] Description

From the Spring 2005 syllabus:

An introduction to data modeling for textual and document-like information, emphasizing fundamental modeling principles and XML-related information processing standards. Specific topics include document analysis, document modeling techniques, markup systems and markup language schemas, and markup semantics. Several important SGML/XML markup vocabularies (TEI, ISO 12083, DocBook, XHTML) will be examined in detail. Relevant context from the theory of formal grammar, algorithms, and data structures will be covered. A special focus of this iteration of 590DM will exploring the relationships between XML-based document modeling and other information modeling practices.

[edit] Comments

I thoroughly enjoyed this class when I took it in Spring, 2004. It has good coverage of both the theory and practice of digital documents, from the foundations of descriptive markup to formalizing document structure through XML schema languages. The real intellectual meat of the course is in analyzing and understanding "genres" or type of documents, and dealing with the modeling problems associated with representing and constraining those documents through markup. Highly recommended to people interested electronic publishing, XML, digital documents, markup semantics. -- Adam Mathes